Call for paper "Childhood and adolescence"

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Call for Papers "Childhood and adolescence: human rights, ethics, politics and epistemology"

This call for Salud Colectiva is fully dedicated to childhood and adolescence, adopting an inherently plural and diverse perspective on these initial phases of human life. These stages require differentiated and specific approaches in many respects.

In a world marked by the exacerbation of inequalities in living conditions, exacerbated by the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and long-standing as well as recent wars, the focal point of the social issue becomes food production. This is coupled with high levels of poverty in households and informality in employment, especially in so-called emerging countries. These factors contribute to an increase in the vulnerability of children and adolescents.

In this context, facing political proposals suggesting a clear regression in the protection of the rights of minorities and vulnerable populations, tensions escalate due to the growing educational needs arising from virtualization. There is an urgent need to persist in eradicating child labor and ensuring the protection of adolescent labor. Thus, the specific and singular impact of any social process of inequality and exclusion on child and adolescent populations is evident in all areas. This calls for a careful approach from the global perspectives of ethics, politics, and the epistemology of child and adolescent human rights, often, if not always, rendered invisible in the interests of age hegemonic groups, among others.

These concerns are exacerbated by the post-pandemic situation, which permeates all aspects of life. Therefore, it is crucial that proposals take into account the global transformative element of the pandemic and the resulting international landscape, emphasizing this aspect as central and illustrating its impact on contemporary societies. Additionally, all of this adds to the anthropocenic dimension of interconnection in all processes, which is revealed to be crucial, more than ever, in child and adolescent populations.

With a deeply inter- and multidisciplinary perspective, this call welcomes proposals from diverse knowledge areas, including humanities, social sciences, health-care sciences, and legal studies, among others, in a very broad sense. Likewise, we encourage the submission of studies employing empirical as well as propaedeutic, philosophical, or speculative approaches.

Thematic areas

Thematic focus 1: Post-colonial Legacy in Childhood and Adolescence, Public Policies, and Contemporary Challenges

Childhoods and Migrations (MENAS)
Childhoods and Minorities
Childhoods and Sex-Gender Diversity
Childhoods and Poverty
Childhoods and Internet/Technology Use
Childhoods and War/Militarized Totalitarian Regimes/Violence

Thematic focus 2: Education and Labor in Childhood and Adolescence

Educational Trajectories, Labor, Care, and Access to Comprehensive Health
Persistent Inequalities, Schools, Devices, and Territories
Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Adolescent Labor
Educational, Social, and Care Policies for Childhoods and Adolescence

Thematic focus 3: (Bio)ethics, (Bio)politics, and Anthropology of Childhood and Adolescence

Philosophy of/for Childhoods
Anthropology of Childhoods
Childhoods, Parenting, and Care
Childhoods and Epistemic Injustice
Pre/Perinatal Rights of Childhoods (Birth, Breastfeeding, Obstetric Violence, Surrogacy, Postpartum Care, etc.)
Childhoods and Functional Diversity/Disability
Childhoods and Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Ethics of Research Involving Childhoods

The coordination of the Salud Colectiva call for paper will be led by:

Esther Maria de Magalhães Arantes, Psychologist and educator, Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Policies and Human Development (PPFH) at the Universidade do Estado do Río de Janeiro (UERJ). Retired Professor from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Conducts research in the areas of the History of Childhood in Brazil, Human Rights, and Public Policies for children and adolescents. Participates in the Research Network on Mental Health of Children and Adolescents and the Research Group on Subjectivity Production and Power Strategies in the Field of Childhood and Youth at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil.

María Eugenia Martín, PhD in Political and Social Sciences, Full Professor of Qualitative Techniques in Social Research, and teacher in the Doctorate in Social Sciences. Director of the Master's Program in Planning and Public Policies. Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Coordinator of the Program for Studies on the Educational and Labor Situation of Youth and Adolescents (PRESELAJ) at the Institute of Labor and Production, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.

Ester Massó Guijarro, Anthropologist and philosopher, PhD, and Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Member of networks such as LIBERESP (Ibero-American Laboratory of Ethics and Public Health), ESPACyOS (Ethics for Action, Care, and Social Observation), and the Scientific Excellence Unit FiloLab, among others. Part of the European research project IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE, focusing on obstetric violence.

Submission of original articles

Works must be original and unpublished and written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. As of 2019, the journal accepts works previously deposited in the preprint platforms SocArXiv, bioRxiv, arXiv, PsyArXiv or SciELO Preprints. All manuscripts will be subject to a preliminary review to determine whether the article meets the goals, editorial policies and standards of the journal. If the article is deemed eligible in this pre-evaluation, the authors will be notified and the peer review process will commence. Regardless of the submission language, works accepted will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both English and Spanish [see Submission and publication languages]. The journal covers the costs of editing, publishing and distribution, and authors must cover the costs of translation.

All works must be submitted via the journal website using the option. For more details, see “How to submit your paper." The basic formal requirements are as follows:

File 1: Authorship page

Reference to the call for papers "Childhood and adolescence: human rights, ethics, politics and epistemology"
Authorship information: first and last names for each author; last academic degree earned; current position and institution; country; e-mail address, ORCiD code.
Acknowledgements: names of the institutions and/or persons to be thanked for their contributions (excluding financial contributions).
Funding: If a grant or funds have been provided to finance the research, the cover page must include the name of the funding agency and the research approval number or code.
Conflict of interests: The mention of a conflict of interest does not imply the rejection of the article. Any real or potential conflict of interest, any obligations on the part of the author/s with regards to sources of funding, or any other type of relationship or rivalry that may be deemed to create a conflict of interest must be explained.
Author contribution: In accordance with the CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy, the cover page must describe the contribution made by each author [ver Authorship].

File 2: Article anonymised

Reference to the call for papers "Childhood and adolescence: human rights, ethics, politics and epistemology"
Title of article: in both Spanish and English.
Article abstract: no more than 12 lines written in a single paragraph without structuring titles, in Spanish and English.
Keywords: 3-5 Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or Health Science Descriptors (DeCS), using the option “DeCS search".
Suggested maximum length: 7,000 words (not including abstract, references and tables or figures).
Submission languages: texts must be submitted in Spanish. Authors who are not Spanish-speaking may submit works in Portuguese or English. If they are accepted, they will be published in Spanish or bilingually in both Spanish and English. The journal will cover editing, publishing, and distribution costs, and authors must cover the cost of translation [see Submission and publication languages].
Endnotes and footnotes: Due to the new electronic editing process, neither endnotes nor footnotes may be included. All necessary clarifications must be provided throughout the text.
Quotation: If the article contains quotations of texts published in other languages, the quotation must be translated into the submission language and the original quotation must be also included.
Figures and tables: No more than seven tables and/or figures will be accepted. They must be submitted within the same file as the text, at the end of the text, and must include the following:

Consecutive numbering (tables and figures must be numbered independently, in series according to their designation).
A descriptive title specifying the geographic and temporal dimensions of the data presented.
The source of the data used.

Data deposit: Research teams must ensure the availability of research data and, in the event that the article is accepted, must deposit the dataset in SciELO Data [see Data Deposit Policy].
Research Ethics: If the research has been carried out using human subjects (including ethnographies using in-depth interviews or any other type of research in which people participate), the text must contain (in the Methodology section) an explanation of the informed consent obtained from participants and the approval of research protocol by the relevant Ethics Committee.
References: Correlative numbering system (Vancouver) based on the style of the National Library of Medicine. Maximum: 100 references.

File 3: Conflict of interest and ethical aspects, originality and publication rights

The Declarations of Ethical Aspects, Conflicts of Interest, Originality and Publication Rights must be downloaded, filled out and included as Supplementary Files in Step 2 "Upload Submission" of the submission process. [Download Declaration CIEA-OPR].

Additional information

Article processing charge (APC): Salud Colectiva does not charge for editorial processing of articles. All editing, publishing and distribution costs are funded by the Instituto de Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.

Open Access policy: Salud Colectiva ratifies the Open Access model in which scientific publications are made freely available in full text online, with no embargo periods and with no publication costs falling on the authors. Authors are offered full access to the final published versions so as to include them in institutional repositories. All of the material included in Salud Colectiva is published under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Submission period

Given that the thematic issue has guest editors from different countries, a specific timeframe is proposed for article submission. Thus, articles may be submitted for evaluation from October 1, 2024 to October 31, 2024.